The money may be in hand by the Day it is due.

I am to beg that you will not advance the Pay of your oflScers till you have proper Consent and Authority for it. Their present sallarys have been laid before Parliament and an Increase thereof without knowing by what authority it is done, will probably occasion Questions and heighten the Complaints abeady made in Parliament of the Latitude in Expences that is even now given.

M": Roberts will no doubt lay his Complaints before you, I ijave near twenty affidavits sent by Major Rogers, which most in

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fault I can't say, most probably both of them so in some Degree, But I am apt to believe that the Major would be glad of any excuse to rid himself of an Indian Commissary I am with great Regard, Dear Sir,

Your most obedient humble servant

Thqs. Gage.

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

New York 14th Deer. 1767. Dear Sir,

The little Carpenter, Great Warrior, and seven other Cherokees are arrived with one Watts their Interpreter. I have taken Care of them here, and shall if wind &ca permits, embark them for Albany after to morrow. But as the Ice will probably prevent their getting up so far, they will its likely, land at the Manor or Claverack and proceed to Albany by Land, from whence they will be forwarded to you. I have provided each with a warm Jacket, a Pass, and Letters to Albany.

You will hear of the ten men belonging to Wharton's Boats, that they were killed by the Indians of Saguinam Bay, as also two Indians who accompanied them, of what nation is not said. They have sent Excuses to Detroit, saying that they took the white men & two Indians all for Cherokees, against whom they went out to war.